Baby, Baby All the Time

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Baby, Baby All the Time (Bobby Troup)

King Cole Trio — Nat King Cole: piano, vocal, Oscar Moore: guitar, Johnny Miller: bass

According to SecondHandSongs.com, in addition to the 78 rpm single Capitol Records 15165, released in 1948, on which one of two 14 April 1946 takes of “Baby, Baby All the Time” is the B-side to “Little Girl,” there were three other versions recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio, one on 11 April 1946, and two takes on 17 April 1946. They indicate that the 1948 single as well as the 11 and 17 April recordings appear on the 1991 compilation set The Complete Capitol Recordings Of The Nat King Cole Trio. However, in one track listing for that 27-album set at Discogs.com, we find only three recordings of the song: one dated 5 April 1946, and two dated 17 April 1946.

B-side of Capitol 15165

(below) other unidentified Nat King Cole recordings

Buddy Rich and his Orchestra, vocal: Buddy Rich — recorded on 25 April 1946; issued on Mercury 3017, b/w “Quiet Riot,” and on Mercury 5224, c/w “Ready to Go Steady”

Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, vocal: Lucy Ann Polk — recorded on 8 July 1947; issued in 1948 on RCA Victor 20-2912, as the B-side of “Judaline” (Gene De Paul, Don Raye)

Charlie Ventura and his Orchestra, vocal: Buddy Stewart — recorded on 11 September 1947; issued on National Records 9057, as the B-side of “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”

Frankie Laine with Carl Fischer’s Poets of Rhythm — issued in 1947 on Atlas FL-137, as the B-side of “Someday Sweetheart”

Johnny Holiday, with Bud Shank and the Orchestra of Russ Garcia — originally issued on the 1954 album Johnny Holiday Sings, Pacifica Records PL-801

June Christy & Stan Kenton — from their album Duet, 1955

Julie London with the Russ Garcia Orchestra — issued in 1955 on the single Liberty 55009, b/w “Shadow Woman”

Frankie Laine and Buck Clayton and his Orchestra — from the 1956 album Jazz Spectacular

Bobby Troup vocal, accompanied, after a couple of opening chords on piano, only by guitar (Al Viola, I think) – 1958

Rhonda Fleming with Frank Comstock and his Orchestra — from the 1958 album Rhonda, Columbia Records CL 1080

Warne Marsh Quintet — recorded at the “Half Note” in NYC on 24 February 1959; released in 1994 on the double CD album Lee Konitz – Live at the Half Note, Verve Records ‎314 521 659-2

Lee Konitz – alto sax
Warne Marsh – tenor sax
Bill Evans – piano
Jimmy Garrison – bass
Paul Motian – drums

recording presently unavailable

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The Superbs

issued in August 1964 on the single Doré 715, b/w “Raindrops, Memories and Tears”

One version of the song recorded by The Superbs includes a spoken introduction, presumably spoken by the lead vocalist Eleanor ‘Punkin’ Green, that goes, “There are eight million stories in the big city. This is mine.” This introduction is absent from the copy of the Doré 715 side played in the video above. Although I’m uncertain of the source, evidence suggests that the following spoken intro version might be from a second recording of the song done by Superbs that was issued in 1967 on Doré 797, b/w “”Baby’s Gone Away.”

appearance on American Bandstand, Season 8, Episode 3 — airdate: 19 September 1964

Julie London — live, from the 1964 LP In Person at the Americana

Medley: Basin Street Blues/St. Louis Blues/Baby, Baby All the Time

The Debtones — issued in 1966 on Valiant Records V-746, c/w “In the Corner of the Room”

De Millers, vocal: Pia Beck — from the 1968 album De Millers’ 68, (Netherlands) Artone ‎MAM S-3144

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Diana Krall — from her 1996 LP All for You (A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio)*

Stephanie Nakasian — from the album Lullaby in Rhythm, released on 24 September 2002 on the V.S.O.P. Records label; album recorded at Warm Valley Studios, Washington DC, on 19 & 20 December 2001

April Phillips — 2007

Andrea Rehm Quartett — 2011

Andrea Rehm, vocal
Martin Giebel, piano
Jens Loh, bass
Hans Fickelscher, drums

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* The length of audio file in the video matches well with the length of the album track reported by CDUniverse, 3:35. However, Wikipedia and AllMusic give the length of the track as 5:56, more than two and half minutes longer.